Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death Documents

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Can a vehicle ride around the inside vertical wall of a cylinder? The video analysis in this item explores the physics behind the Wall of Death. The zip file contains the Wall of Death blog entry, a video of a car riding the wall, and a Tracker video analysis file. A discussion of the physics for a car on the wall was posted on the Dot Physics blog for Wired. A second blog entry describes the physics of a motorcycle on the wall..